Classical Notes
Classical Notes: Cellissimo arrives in Galway bigger and better
Cellissimo has become a major festival that reaches out in all directions ‘From Galway to the World’ to display the talents of so many great musicians
The Covid epidemic did not kill off Galway’s music splurge for its ill-fated celebration as European City of Culture in 2020. Not altogether, anyway. It salvaged some of its splendid and original ideas and has used them since then in various ways. Not the least of these is the concept of Cellissimo, an extravagant celebration of an instrument that has been called ‘’the soul at the heart of classical music’’.
Cellissimo did not go away, ...